LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
OTHER LIFE-BOAT LAUNCHES
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 114, 126, 132, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive:...
Category: Services
Some of the Tank Test Models for the New Fast Slipway Boat Were Converted for Freerunning, Radio Controlled Handling and Manoeuvrability Trials
Some of the tank test models for the new Fast Slipway Boat were converted for freerunning, radio controlled handling and manoeuvrability trials. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Drifter Nairnside
DECEMBER 28TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. At 4.50 in the evening the coastguard reported signals from a vessel about five miles north-east of Whitehills, but the signals could not be understood. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea,...
Tennant, of Stockton
On the 5th January, the brig Tennant, of Stockton, ran on shore, in a severe snow-storm, on the Newcome Sand.
She was quickly seen from the shore, and the Lowestoft life-boat was immediately manned and launched, under the...
The S.S. May
At 1.15 A.M. on 23rd November a telephone message was received stating that the lights of a vessel ashore off Ballyfrenis Point were seen. As this is a very dangerous part of the coast, the Motor Life-boat William and Mary proceeded to...
The Union Castle Line Steamer Rothesay Castle
JANUARY 5TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 12.50 A.M. news was received through the coastguard that an S.O.S. had been sent out by the Union Castle Line steamer Rothesay Castle. She was a vessel of over 7,000 tons and bound from New York to...
About 2000 People Gathered on Moelfre Beach Anglesey on Saturday June 7 to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Lifeboat Station a Service of Thanksgiving and Re-Dedication Was Conducte
About 2,000 people gathered on Moelfre beach, Anglesey, on Saturday June 7, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the lifeboat station. A service of thanksgiving and re-dedication was conducted by His Grace, The Archbishop of Wales, during... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI and me: Ant Middleton
WHO IS ANT MIDDLETON?
Ant Middleton features in Channel 4’s SAS : Who Dares Wins, Mutiny and the forthcoming Escape. Born in Portsmouth and raised in France, Ant followed a career in the armed forces, eventually joining the Royal...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Indian Exporter
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 1.20 early on the morning of the 16th of May, 1953, the Teesmouth life-boat station telephoned to say that the S.S. Indian Exporter, of Calcutta, had asked for a boat to land a sick seaman. The Teesmouth life-boat was...
The Longstone Lighthouse
NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLA.
ND.—On the 19th February during heavy gale from the S.E., the Coxswain the Life-boat Thomas Bewick received message from the Trinity boatman requesting that the Life-boat might be sent to the...